"For every head [shall be] bald, and every beard clipped; On all the hands [shall be] cuts, and on the loins sackcloth --

He has gone up to the temple and Dibon, To the high places to weep. Moab will wail over Nebo and over Medeba; On all their heads [will be] baldness, [And] every beard cut off.

They will also be girded with sackcloth; Horror will cover them; Shame [will be] on every face, Baldness on all their heads.

Make yourself bald and cut off your hair, Because of your precious children; Enlarge your baldness like an eagle, For they shall go from you into captivity.

The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet against the Philistines, before Pharaoh attacked Gaza.

Thus says the LORD: "For three transgressions of Gaza, and for four, I will not turn away its [punishment,] Because they took captive the whole captivity To deliver [them] up to Edom.

I will cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod, And the one who holds the scepter from Ashkelon; I will turn My hand against Ekron, And the remnant of the Philistines shall perish," Says the Lord GOD.

For Gaza shall be forsaken, And Ashkelon desolate; They shall drive out Ashdod at noonday, And Ekron shall be uprooted.

The seacoast shall be pastures, With shelters for shepherds and folds for flocks.

Ashkelon shall see [it] and fear; Gaza also shall be very sorrowful; And Ekron, for He dried up her expectation. The king shall perish from Gaza, And Ashkelon shall not be inhabited.

I will take away the blood from his mouth, And the abominations from between his teeth. But he who remains, even he [shall be] for our God, And shall be like a leader in Judah, And Ekron like a Jebusite.

Because of the day that comes to plunder all the Philistines, To cut off from Tyre and Sidon every helper who remains; For the LORD shall plunder the Philistines, The remnant of the country of Caphtor.

all the mixed multitude, all the kings of the land of Uz, all the kings of the land of the Philistines (namely, Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod);

'therefore thus says the Lord GOD: "I will stretch out My hand against the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethites and destroy the remnant of the seacoast.

The word of the LORD also came to me, saying,

that certain men came from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, eighty men with their beards shaved and their clothes torn, having cut themselves, with offerings and incense in their hand, to bring [them] to the house of the LORD.

"For every head [shall be] bald, and every beard clipped; On all the hands [shall be] cuts, and on the loins sackcloth --

'You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor tattoo any marks on you: I [am] the LORD.

' They shall not make any bald [place] on their heads, nor shall they shave the edges of their beards nor make any cuttings in their flesh.

"You [are] the children of the LORD your God; you shall not cut yourselves nor shave the front of your head for the dead.

So they cried aloud, and cut themselves, as was their custom, with knives and lances, until the blood gushed out on them.

And always, night and day, he was in the mountains and in the tombs, crying out and cutting himself with stones.